Coincidentally I just finished his Sister Pelagia series.
From Wikipedia:
Between 1550 and 1700, the Russian state expanded by an average of 35,000 square kilometres (14,000 sq mi) per year.
14,000 sq mi is about the size of Taiwan or two New Jerseys.
Happy Valentine’s Day Belarus!
BBC video posted over to the r/europe subreddit that read though russian newspapers and boy they did a terrible job hiding how bad things are over in their economy
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/198t4ac/in_todays_russian_papers_turkish_banks_refusing/
Turkish banks want nothing to do with the russians, coal exports are way down, chinese firms dominating russian carmakers and russians turning off state media for tv news. So you know, spectacular news for Putin.
Get used to that everybody. Not just Russians…
